{"id":17580,"date":"2023-01-05T13:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.finoit.com\/?p=17580"},"modified":"2024-04-03T08:01:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T08:01:53","slug":"enterprise-agility-with-microservices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finoit.com\/blog\/enterprise-agility-with-microservices\/","title":{"rendered":"Achieving Enterprise Agility and Scalability With Microservices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microservices architectures underpin most successful software delivery pipelines today. Leveraging them helps you secure long-term business and technological advantages, as we discuss here.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAny service, at any granularity, can be exposed,<\/strong>\u201d were the words of Dr. Peter Rodgers, while delivering a presentation on cloud computing in 2005. It was here that he used the term Micro-Web-Services, which he said can \u201cimprove simplicity and provide radical flexibility\u201d in SOA (service-oriented architectures).<\/p>\n

Today, the idea of microservices has taken the enterprise world by storm. Dealing with copious amounts of data with cumbersome monolithic architecture has become unmanageable, especially when the volume and scale of businesses are rising continually. Technological blockages are preventing them to scale technically at the speed at which the business is growing.<\/p>\n

Thus, businesses want to get out with the old by embracing microservices architecture, which offers both business and developer benefits.<\/p>\n

Microservices have emerged as a dependable solution to scale, speed up, and optimize software delivery. Rising business demands and expectations are acting as a catalyst for their adoption.<\/p>\n

Though microservices offer many potential benefits, which could significantly improve operational and economic results, it is never without a good strategy.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s proceed to understand more about microservices, and the roadmap enterprises need to follow for securing advantages associated with them. However, before we take you to this, let\u2019s understand the problems with monolithic architecture.<\/p>\n

Monolithic-An infeasible proposition<\/h2>\n

Working with monolithic architecture has created multiple roadblocks while building applications. This realization is being caused by various issues, facing businesses, which we look at here. Let\u2019s analyze them to understand why monolithic is an infeasible approach to building and scaling software systems.<\/p>\n

Lack of scope<\/h3>\n

Monolithic systems are highly interconnected. Features hence frequently interact with numerous system components and invariably come with\u00a0side effects. There is no physical division between various components of the systems; monolithic applications are constructed and deployed as a unified unit.<\/p>\n

As a result, it is impossible to ensure that every new release will only have an impact on those locations. Even with robust testing procedures such as regression testing, there\u2019s always a possibility that change isolation cannot be facilitated.<\/p>\n

Overspending<\/h3>\n

Despite being the most common style of architecture today, the monolithic method becomes a bottleneck in sophisticated, large-scale systems. As the system’s features and complexity increase, lengthier development and quality assurance cycles are needed.<\/p>\n

You must rebuild, execute the full testing cycle, and deploy the entire monolithic once more in order to\u00a0add a new feature or even make minor modifications to a single component. Monolithic application updates are therefore cumbersome and\u00a0time\u00ad-consuming, which is another barrier to more rapid release cycles.<\/p>\n

Rigidity<\/h3>\n

Scaling a monolithic architecture\u2019s logical components is challenging and\u00a0consumes many resources.\u00a0Most of the time, the only way to scale a monolithic system is to run it in several instances, which increases the amount of memory and processing resources needed. Consider the scenario where you need to boost the website’s throughput – here, either you need to\u00a0deploy multiple instances of the entire program and set up load balancers or purchase a virtual machine with higher processing power.<\/p>\n

You may not be able to address the issue, even after following these steps. Even then, the problem might not necessarily be resolved. Database locking difficulties could result from the scaling issue, therefore adding additional instances of the monolithic can\u00a0worsen the situation further.<\/p>\n

Over-commitment<\/h3>\n

For the sake of interoperability, layers of monolithic architecture are typically designed using the same technology and are tightly coupled in-process calls. You effectively deepen your commitment to the current technology stack with each system update.<\/p>\n

Developers and architects find it more difficult to switch to or try out other\u00a0technological stacks. However,\u00a0they are only\u00a0less able to leverage\u00a0new technologies. Being over-committed to a technological framework limits your ability to compete on an even playing field.<\/p>\n

The big absence<\/h3>\n

Regarding our monolithic program, a modification in the Orders module may have an impact on the Stock module, and so forth. Such a situation is the outcome of the absence of modularity. This also implies that we are unable to use a module’s features in another module. The code is not broken up into reusable, structured chunks that might save effort and time. Because the code modules are not divided, there is no common code to use.<\/p>\n

The Effects<\/h2>\n

Hampering the technological performance and down the line, the business performance, the resultant effects of continuing with monolithic architecture are:<\/p>\n

The failed promise<\/h3>\n

With monolithic architecture, it may be argued that the\u00a0implementation is never fully finished. The reason is that for\u00a0most enterprises,\u00a0committing to\u00a0meeting customer demands\u00a0and innovating constantly is a big challenge.<\/p>\n

As we saw, the difficulty lies in the fact that continuing implementations, whether it\u2019s the release of auxiliary components or an upgrade to the most recent platform version to gain access to new features and functionalities, operations are costly and time-consuming.<\/p>\n

Discontentment<\/h3>\n

Today, when businesses are adopting customer-centric strategies, customer behavior and demands drive every change, and quickly satisfying these needs is a competitive differentiation.<\/p>\n

Customer experience improvements on monolithic platforms are conceivable, but they take time as\u00a0the architecture cannot accommodate a business’s unique use cases, frequently as a result of a misalignment between complicated requirements and a lack of capability. This can have negative implications on\u00a0the customer experience, leading to dissatisfaction amongst clients and their end users who are using the applications.<\/p>\n

What are Microservices?<\/h2>\n

Wikipedia defines Microservices as an architectural pattern that arranges an application as a collection of loosely-coupled, fine-grained services, communicating through lightweight protocols.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It would be no surprise to be nonplussed at the mere technical concepts that these definitions compose. Let’s thus decompose this definition to understand the idea the components convey.<\/p>\n